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Their goal was to illustrate the quadratic equation by using the field as the x-axis and the water balloon's path as the parabola. "The benefit to this is everyone can see it," Bucolt said.

The same thing happens with the Pythagorean theorem, where in school, most examples end up solving out to Pythagorean triples, the small set of integer values that work cleanly into the Pythagorean ...

A mathematician at Carnegie Mellon University has developed an easier way to solve quadratic equations. Here's the secret.

But he systematically set out word-­form linear and quadratic equations, with algorithmic methods for solving them — that is, for finding the "unknown numbers," our modern x 's and y 's.